prep. According to; in accordance with; in conformity with the nature of.

prep. According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting.

prep. successively.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Behind; in the rear: as, to follow after.

Later in time; afterward: as, it was about the space of three hours after.

Behind in place: as, men placed in a line one after another.

Later in time than; in succession to; at the close of: as, after supper.

In pursuit of; in search of; with or in desire for.

In imitation of, or in imitation of the style of: as, to make a thing after a model; after the French; after the antique; after Raphael.

According to; in proportion to; in accordance with: as, “after their intrinsic value,” Bacon, War with Spain.

According to the nature of; in agreement or unison with; in conformity to.

Below in rank or excellence; next to: as, Milton is usually placed after Shakspere among English poets.

Concerning: as, to inquire after a person.

Subsequent to and in consequence of: as, after what has happened I can never return.

Subsequent to the time that.

Synonyms Behind, After. See behind.

Later in time; subsequent; succeeding: as, an after period of life.

Naut,: Further aft, or toward the stern of the ship: as, the after-sails; the after-hatch-way.

Pertaining to the after-body of a ship: as, after-timbers.

In mineralogy, derived from; having the form of: said of pseudomorphs, which retain only the form of the original mineral: as, malachite pseudomorph after cuprite; cassiterite pseudomorph after feldspar. See pseudomorph.

Examples

Fuckem. marz hey did yall see the last easter egg after the credits..after the one with stryker getting arrested..after showing him in the japanese bar..and after the one where deadpool grabs his own head..they showed the the final easter egg: the actual movie COMPLETED!

So, ASC, being a profit-motivated organization and not, in reality, violating any laws after all, military-grade hardware was added *after* the airframes arrived on Hera, continued to sell Fireflies to our friends at the FFSW on Hera right up until the plant was destroyed in the war.

People often forget that a language area, even after fracturing into mutually incomprehensible or almost incomprehensible dialects, can still disseminate new features developed *after* the dissolution of the language.

The unanimous decision by the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy comes two weeks after three women sued Wal-Mart in state court for failing to carry the so called ` ` morning after\'\ 'pill in its Wal-Mart and Sam\'s Club stores in the state.

You see, Volso refused point-blank to give his porter the day off today, and the porter is adamant his master left the house shortly after dawn and did not come back until _after _the boy had been shot.

The monarch, ordinarily, dined at the Tower on the day after the creation of the Knights of the Bath; and devoted the greater part of the day, _after_ dinner, to this prolonged exhibition of himself to the people.

And so, since the menstrual flow ceases after about five days from its beginning, in about ten days _after_ its stopping, the ovum will have passed out of the womb, and hence that organ contains nothing that is impregnable.